lokān

1. لْكَ

loka m. (connected with roka; in the oldest texts loka is generally preceded by u, which accord. to the Padap. = the particle 3. u; but u may be a prefixed vowel and uloka, a collateral dialectic form of loka; accord. to others uloka is abridged from uru or avaloka), free or open space, room, place, …

2. لْكَ

the wide space or world (either ‘the universe’ or ‘any division of it’, esp. ‘the sky or heaven’; 3 Loka s are commonly enumerated, viz. heaven, earth, and the atmosphere or lower regions; sometimes only the first two; but a fuller classification gives 7 worlds, viz. Bhūr - l˚ , the earth; Bhuvar -

3. لْكَ

the earth or world of human beings &c., Mn. ; MBh. &c. (ayaṃlokaḥ, ‘this world’; asau or parolokaḥ, ‘that or the other world’; loke or ihaloke, ‘here on earth’, opp. to paratra, paraloke &c.; kṛtsneloke, ‘on the whole earth’)